Comparing InetSoft StyleBI to Chartio


Looking to see how InetSoft's solution stacks up against Chartio? Peer-to-peer business solutions review platform G2 Crowd has released its ratings of data visualization providers and InetSoft has scored impressively, dominating Chartio in self service, the strength of its platform, and in building reports. InetSoft beat Chartio in the general rankings of Meet Requirements, and Quality of Support. These and other high ratings come as a surprise to anyone who's experienced InetSoft's versatility and commitment to its customer base.

In the Platform category, InetSoft outranked Chartio in Sandbox/Test Environments, Customization, and User, Role, and Access Management. InetSoft's strength in customization ranges from its white label friendliness as an embeddable OEM product to its flexibility in assigning permissions to various levels of users.

An example of InetSoft to compare Chartio

An Easy to Learn Alternative to Chartio

The ease and flexibility of the InetSoft platform is often reflected in the relatively fast deployment time; InetSoft customers appreciate that the InetSoft platform can be deployed in a matter of hours, as opposed to deployments stretching on for weeks that are typical of other BI products.

This ease of use enables self service, and in that area InetSoft outranked Chartio in Data Column Filtering, Data Discovery, and Search. InetSoft's proprietary data worksheet makes data alterations, mashups, and reformatting easy to accomplish, without having to mess with code. This convenience and ease of use extends to InetSoft's reporting interface, which won on Steps to Answer, Scorecards, Data Transformation, Data Modeling, WYSIWYG Report Design, and Integration Apis.

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InetSoft Scored Higher than Chartio in the Following Areas

Ratings
  • Meet Requirements
  • Quality of Support
Reports
  • ScoreCards
  • Data Modeling
  • WYSIWYG Report Design
  • Integration APIs
Self Service
  • Data Column Filtering
  • Search
Platform
  • Sandbox/Test Environments
  • Customization
  • User, Role, and Access Management

Advantages of InetSoft over Chartio

This comparison looks at how InetSoft Style Intelligence (InetSoft) stacks up against Chartio, with a focus on areas where InetSoft tends to offer stronger value—for example in larger-scale deployments, embedding analytics, flexible mash-ups, and enterprise use cases. Chartio was a well-known cloud-based visualization tool (now discontinued) that emphasized ease of use and visual querying; for organizations looking beyond simple dashboards and aiming for more extensible BI/reporting platforms, InetSoft may present meaningful advantages.

Advantage
What it means
Practical impact
Stronger data mashup and multi-source integration
InetSoft provides a “data mashup engine” that lets users combine disparate data sources—spreadsheets, relational databases, web services, OLAP sources—on the fly. Chartio, being more visualization-and-SQL-query oriented, had more limited data-blending/ETL capabilities.
In environments where data lives in many systems and formats (for example multiple departments, external APIs, legacy systems), organizations may deploy dashboards faster and with fewer workarounds using InetSoft. The requirement to build heavy ETL pipelines before visualization is reduced.
Embedded analytics, OEM and white-label capability
InetSoft emphasises flexibility for embedding analytics into custom applications, SaaS solutions, partner portals, with white-labelling and multi-tenant hosting capabilities. Chartio was more oriented toward “dashboard as a service” for business users rather than deep embedding scenarios.
If the goal is to brand the analytics experience, integrate it seamlessly into a customer-facing application or partner offering, or provide a multi-tenant analytics environment, InetSoft offers a stronger fit—reducing need for separate embedding tools or heavy custom code.
Production reporting & traditional report formats alongside dashboards
InetSoft supports operational/paginated reporting (pixel-perfect layout) as well as interactive dashboards in the same platform. Chartio’s strength was interactive dashboards and visual query building, with less emphasis on formatted operational reports.
Organizations that require scheduled formatted outputs (for example board packs, regulatory reports, operational production reports) plus interactive visual analytics benefit from one unified platform rather than using separate tools (one for dashboards, one for formatted reports).
Deployment flexibility and scalability
InetSoft supports on-premises, cloud, hybrid, multi-tenant deployments with clustering and a smaller infrastructure footprint. Chartio, being cloud-native, offered convenience but less flexibility for on-premises or embedded multi-tenant OEM use cases or deeper customization of infrastructure.
For enterprises with specific deployment requirements (data residency, security, embedding, hybrid architectures), InetSoft can meet them more directly. It allows gradual scaling from pilot to enterprise without being locked into a specific cloud-only model.
Enterprise-grade customization, user/role management, sandbox/test environments
InetSoft out-scored Chartio in reviews for platform capabilities such as sandbox/test environments, customization, user/role/access management, and self-service features like data column filtering, search, data discovery.
This means that IT/BI teams in larger organizations gain more control over governance, sandbox usage, controlled self-service, embedded analytics, and the ability to support many user roles/tenants—all while giving business users flexibility. Chartio, by contrast, focused on ease-of-use and quick visual query building rather than heavy governance architecture.
Faster prototyping and agile self-service without heavy IT lift
InetSoft emphasizes rapid deployment (sometimes “hours” to production dashboards) and strong self-service features for end users (ad-hoc exploration, calculated fields, drag-and-drop). While Chartio also emphasised ease of use, the limitations around data blending, embedding and governance mean that achieving broader analytic roll-out may involve more trade-offs.
Businesses that need to show value quickly—e.g., pilot dashboards across departments, empower business analysts rather than purely IT-led development—may find InetSoft’s combination of flexibility + governance helps accelerate adoption and reduce backlog for the BI team.
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